Looks like tech gods of all social media platforms have realised the power of 'unsending' a message and following the suit of Whatsapp and Instagram, Facebook will soon allow you to take back anything on the messenger and delete it within 10 minutes you hitting 'send'.
INTERESTING... Facebook Messenger's long-awaited delete messages feature will only give you a 10 minute window to remove a message in a chat pic.twitter.com/ew1z2WPXbc
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 7, 2018
So while it is a great tool to delete anything you need to take back, one needs to remember that it is still not a solution for a night of binge drinking and drunk texting. You have a window of 10 minutes only and you need to make good use of it. So if you accidentally sent a photo, a video or wrote something in rage, Facebook has got your back.

Facebook keeps on updating its social website with interesting features which sometimes turn into annoying ones.
But this time Facebook has got an update which we all were long waiting for.
Can you guess? It's the sweet reaction GIF which has finally got its place on Facebook.
After a months-long test of the feature, Facebook has announced that it's finally rolling out support for GIFs in Facebook comments.
Interesting! Isn't it?
From today, anyone can add a GIF to a Facebook comment using a new GIF button that appears alongside the emoji picker.
Much like the GIF button in Facebook Messenger, the new GIF comments are sourced from Facebook's GIF partners, including Giphy, Tenor, and Disney.
But, wait. There are also a few limitations.
Though you can search for GIFs using the feature's built-in search, adding a specific GIF you have in mind may be a bit more difficult. You can't upload your own GIFs or post GIFs via a URL like you can with a normal Facebook post.
Facebook users exchanged nearly 13 billion GIFs on Messenger in 2016 alone, according to the company, which works out to about 25,000 GIFs each minute.

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Are you a member of a busy Facebook Group? Do you find it overwhelming trying to sort through all the posts to find something posted the day before? Are you now missing new posts and only seeing them a few days later?
Facebook Groups are tempting to use as they are free to set up but is this the best decision for the future of your business?
At the beginning with just a handful of members, things may fun fine. But fast forward to where your group becomes busy with thousands of members posting and reading.
Your group becomes overwhelming. You find it hard to locate posts made on previous days and search is of no use. It is getting harder to keep on top of troublesome and spamming members.
Worse still, Facebook's changing algorithms mean that your members are not seeing every post you make. You do as Facebook asks and link your page to your group to find that you must now boost posts to reach your members.
This is getting to be a very common scenario.
Even more worrying are rumours that Facebook is bringing advertising to groups. Will this allow your competitors to target your hard won membership?
Will Facebook roll out the "Discover" tab across all continents? This alone has destroyed organic reach for many brands.
What would you do if Facebook blocked your account for a week? Would your sales suffer?
There is a way to take back control of your membership and secure your business' future. Building your business on your own land is a powerful way of retaining complete control over your community regardless of what happens to Facebook longer term.
Created in 2002, Invision Community has always adapted to the changing habits of the internet. Our latest product is clean, modern, mobile ready and equipped to integrate with social media. It can power your conversations, website and shopping cart. It features single click Facebook sign in and tools to promote scheduled content to your Facebook page.
We recently wrote why you shouldn't settle for a Facebook Group when building a community.
The benefits of an owned Invision Community are:
You own your own data. Your data is not mined for Facebook's benefit.
Make it yours by branding it your way
You're no longer boxed in by the Facebook format
Seamless integration to your shopping cart for more monetization opportunities
Set up permission levels to better control what your members can see
Lets dig in a look at some of the tools you can leverage to make the migration easier.
Mobile Ready
Invision Community works great on your mobile. It resizes the page perfectly to match whichever device you are using. You don't need to install special apps or mess with themes. It just works out of the box.
Facebook Sign In
The first thing you'll want to do is turn on Facebook Sign In. This adds the familiar Facebook button right on the sign in page and register form. Clicking this logs them into your new community with their Facebook account. It even imports their profile photo so they are familiar with other members.
Make use of embeds
A great way to keep incorporating content from your Facebook Group or Page is to use embeds. Post a link to your content on Facebook and it transforms into a rich media snippet.
Social Promotions
Share your community content with your Facebook Page. Click the "Promote" button on any content item and you can customize the text and images shared. The promotion system offers a full scheduling system much like Buffer or Hootsuite. This is all built in at no extra cost.
Find Your Content
Unlike a Facebook Group, your Invision Community makes it easy to find older content. A powerful feature is activity streams. These are customizable "feeds" much like the Facebook News Feed but completely editable to you and your members needs. You can even make this the first page your members see for easy content discovery.
Use Clubs
Clubs allow sub-communities to run inside your main community. Let's look at a real world example.
A FitPro has several different fitness products for sale. Each product is a Facebook Group. She posts daily workouts and answers member's questions.
Using many groups can be very time consuming to manage.
Clubs puts these sub-communities right on the page making it easy to drop in and update.
These Clubs can be private and members invited to join allowing full privacy. This is like a closed Facebook group.
We're only scratching the surface of what Invision Community can offer you. You can take back control of your membership and be free from the fear that Facebook will change something that will impact your sales.
We're experts in this field with 16 years of experience. We've helped grow thousands of communities from the very biggest brands to the smallest of niches.
We'd love to talk to you about your needs.

Social media promotion should be a part of any marketing strategy. Curating interesting content from your community and sharing to social media channels like Facebook and Twitter is a great way to drive traffic to your site.
Invision Community 4.2 introduced Social Media Promotions to allow this.
You hit the promote button, fill out the text to share with each service, click which photos to include and schedule the promotion or send it immediately.
We use this feature almost every single day to share highlights to our Invision Community Facebook page and Twitter.
This feature has had a significant impact in attracting visitors to our blog. This is now a core part of our marketing strategy.
So what's new in Invision Community 4.3?
Facebook Groups and Pages
A popular feature request was to allow sharing to Facebook groups that you are an administrator of, as well as Pages you own.
Not only that, but we now allow you to share to many places at once.
When setting up Facebook, you can choose which Facebook properties to be used when promoting.
When sharing content, you can choose where to share it to right on the dialog.
Here you can see that we're sharing to two of three possible places. "It's a secret" is a Facebook Group (which makes it a pretty poor secret).
The "Lindy Throgmartin Fan Club" is my favourite page on all of Facebook. What it lacks in members, it makes up for in enthusiasm.
You may also notice that the Facebook box is empty. Facebook have very strict guidelines on sharing content. They prefer that you do not auto-populate the content.
You can always access the item's original content on the promote dialog, so you can refer to it.
Setting a custom page title
When you share to social media channels, you also have the opportunity to add to the 'Our Picks' page.
We've made it possible to add a custom title for the Our Picks page so you don't have to use the content item title, although this is still the default.
Editing an Our Pick
When editing an item shared to 'Our Picks', you now have the option of editing all the data, including the title and the images attached.
The Our Picks page showing the custom title
Thanks to your feedback, we saw several places that we can improve this already popular feature.
We hope you enjoy these changes which makes your social promotion strategy even easier to execute.
I know we'll be making good use of them!

Whether you run an existing community or are taking tentative first steps into setting up an online community forum around your brand, an important choice you need to make is between social networks like Facebook or having a community you own and control.
Let's take a look at the benefits of an owned community versus a Facebook group - as well as how you can still use Facebook (and other social media platforms) to your advantage.
You own your data
The biggest point to consider when using Facebook groups is that you do not own your own data. Facebook owns it and does not even allow you direct access to it. If you decide later to move to a different platform, need to run reports to extract meaningful insights, or otherwise work with your community data: you are out of luck.
In contrast, with an Invision Community, your data is your data. You can use it in any way that makes sense for your goals; be it analyzing trends, sending promotions to users, or generating reports and statistics. We never hold your data hostage and there's no fee to get it.
Beyond owning the data, you also control how it's used and presented. Facebook is notorious for changing algorithms for when (or even if) people see your posts. When you run your own community the experience for your and your users is in your control.
Branding opportunities
This is a big one. An owned community gives you the tools you need to make your community a seamless part of your user's interaction with your business. This naturally includes your brand styles (your logo, colors, site navigation and so on) but also your community web address (URL). With an owned community, your URL will be easy to find - customers normally opt for something like forum.yourname.com or community.yourname.com.
Users will have more confidence that they're in the right place, and more closely associate your community and your message with your brand.
Emails sent out by your owned community can also carry your branding, consistently reinforcing that connection between your business and your community.
And, of course, when users share content from your community to Facebook and other social networks, they're sending users directly to your website where you have the opportunity to lead with your most important call to actions.
More control over user experience
All Facebook groups are, essentially, the same experience and yet your business needs almost certainly aren't the same as every other. One size doesn't necessarily fit all when it comes to community!
When you control your own community, you have the ability to control your user's experience. Need to show specific types of data in specific places? You can do that (and more) with Invision Community's easy to use Blocks feature. Need to create a custom community application to serve as a resource center for product support? You can do that too.
Another huge benefit of this control is that, unlike a Facebook Group, users won't be seeing ads and 'recommended content' from competing businesses and communities. With user attention being pulled in so many directions these days, the last thing your community needs is for users to leave because Facebook has suggested a competitor!
No barriers to monetization
Not all communities require a monetization strategy. In many cases, the community is part of a larger customer relationship strategy rather than a revenue-generating destination in its own right.
But for those communities that do plan to monetize, options with a Facebook group are at best difficult to act upon, and at worst practically non-existent.
In contrast, Invision Community gives you the opportunity to explore monetization strategies that work for you. These might include paid subscription plans (a particularly attractive option for fan club communities), traditional advertising through Google AdSense and other networks, or sponsorship deals with other businesses that might be relevant to your members. Invision Community has tools for each of these approaches built in, allowing you to start monetizing with minimum fuss.
Fine-grained permission controls
Facebook groups struggle to reflect the real-world roles that staff members play in your organization, limiting your choices to 'administrator' or 'moderator'. And the same is true of users, too - your options for recognizing different levels of user (such as VIPs, or brand ambassadors) are limited.
Invision Community is different. Since you are creating and configuring each member group, you can precisely control who can see what, and how they are recognized within the community. You can even sync these roles via Single Sign-On (SSO) making setup and assigning users to groups painless.
For staff groups, you can limit access to key community functions based on roles or responsibilities, ensuring access is granted on an as-needed basis only.
For users, you can get creative and find a group structure that works best for your specific needs. For example, support communities often find that recognizing the most knowledgeable and helpful members with a new member group (complete with elevated permissions) is a great way of engaging users.
And finally, with this control over access, it's very easy to create restricted areas of the community. Whether you want to create a private subforum that staff can use to coordinate tasks or a file repository that's only available to subscribers, Invision Community can achieve it.
You can still reap the Facebook benefits
Setting up your community within Facebook's walls might not be the best approach for you. That doesn't mean you should ignore Facebook, however. On the contrary, it's an influential platform and there's a very good chance your users are already using it.
Invision Community offers a number of tools that allow you to benefit from Facebook while avoiding the drawbacks we discussed. We'll go into more detail on utilizing social media in a future article, but to summarize:
Invision Community features social sign-in options, enabling users to register and log in using their existing social media accounts, substantially reducing onboarding friction.
Content can promoted by staff back to your social network pages, automatically and on a schedule you decide.
Invision Community supports automatic embedding of a wide number of social networks (and other services), allowing users to share their favorite Facebook and Twitter posts and spark a whole new conversation - but this time in your community.
Summary
When you are creating an online community for your business or hobby it is important to think about your goals and future growth by choosing a platform that is there to work for your needs.
When you establish your community on Facebook, you're helping to grow someone else's business (including, potentially, your competitors!) and hoping that some of those spoils fall to you. With an owned community, the rewards of your hard work belong to you and your business alone.
Invision Community has been enabling users and businesses to communicate online since 2002, and we're proud of our reputation as a platform that puts control in your hands. Contact us if you'd like to discuss how we can help you too.

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Facebook
You can allows users to sign in on your community with their Facebook account. This is a great way to make it easier for users to get started on your community and increase the number of signups. In addition, users who sign in with Facebook can have their profile photo automatically synced with Facebook and can even import their status updates and allow them to automatically share content they post on your community to Facebook. This guide covers everything you need to know to set up this integration.
Tip
If you enable either the "Allow Status Imports?" or "Users can share immediately when posting?" settings for Facebook login, make sure you read and follow the instructions in Step Five below.
Step One: Create a Facebook App
In order to use Facebook to log in on your community, you need to create an "application" through the Facebook Developer site. This gives Facebook some information about your community and a special key that is needed to complete the set up.
Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps and sign in with your Facebook account if you are not already signed in.
Click the button to add an app in the top-right.
Add in a display name (probably the same as you added above) and a contact email, along with a category appropriate to your community.
On the product setup screen, select 'Get Started' next to 'Facebook Login'
Select 'web' from the new app screen
Add your site URL in the space provided
Click continue through all the next screens, until you reach the following page
Step Two: Update App Settings
There's a few more pieces of information you need to give Facebook about your community before continuing.
On the dashboard for your app on Facebook's site, click the "Settings" link the sidebar.
Fill in a Contact Email and select save changes in the bottom right of the page.
It is also a good idea to upload an App Icon so that when users sign in with Facebook they see your logo rather than a generic icon on the login screen. You can also set a Privacy Policy URL so users see a link to that on the sign in screen. These are normally optional, but if you intend to enable the "Allow Status Imports?" or "Users can share immediately when posting?" settings (discussed in Step Five), it is required.
Step Three: Link your Facebook App with your Community
Back on the dashboard for your Facebook App you will see a box like this at the top of the page:
You need to copy and paste the App ID and App Secret into the Admin CP on your community. Go to Admin CP -> System -> Login Handlers and click the "Edit" icon for Facebook and enter those details on that screen.
Tip
If you enable either the "Allow Status Imports?" or "Users can share immediately when posting?" settings for Facebook login, make sure you read and follow the instructions in Step Five below.
After saving, you need to enable the login handler. Make sure the badge next to Facebook says "Enabled", and click it to toggle if it doesn't.
Step Four: Enable your App
Now you need to set your Facebook App to be ready for use.
Back on the dashboard for your app on Facebook's site, click the "App review" link the sidebar.
Click the toggle to make your application live and confirm the popup.
Users will now be able to sign in with Facebook on your community.
Optional Step Five: App Review for Status Integration
When setting up Facebook login, there are two settings which, if enabled, you need to perform additional steps to set up: "Allow Status Imports?" or "Users can share immediately when posting?".
Because these settings allow your community to read from and write to the user's timeline on Facebook, Facebook requires that before you can use these features you must submit an application to them to review this functionality. If you want to enable either of these settings, you need to do the following:
If you have not already uploaded an App Icon and set a Privacy Policy URL as discussed in Step Two, do that now.
Enable the settings as desired and then sign in with Facebook on your site. You will see a message that some permissions have not been submitted for approval, you can ignore that warning for now and press "OK" to continue logging in.
If you are enabling the "Users can share immediately when posting?" setting, you need to perform this action so that Facebook knows it works correctly. Submit a topic or other content on your community and when you do so, check the "Share on Facebook" checkbox.
Back on the dashboard for your app on Facebook's site, click the "App review" link the sidebar.
Click "Start a Submission".
If you are enabling the "Allow Status Imports?" setting, check the "user_posts" checkbox.
If you are enabling the "Users can share immediately when posting?" setting, check the "publish_actions" checkbox.
Click the "Add X Items" button.
If you are enabling the "Allow Status Imports?" setting, click the "Add Notes" button for the "user_posts" permission and fill in the form explaining how your community will allow users to import posts from the user's timeline into the statuses feature on your community. You will need to select the "Web" platform and provide both instructions and a screencast of how Facebook can test the feature. Suggested instructions are:
If you are enabling the "Users can share immediately when posting?" setting, click the "Add Notes" button for the "publish_actions" permission and fill in the form explaining how your community will allow users to share content they create on your community to their Facebook timeline. You will need to select the "Web" platform and provide both instructions and a screencast of how Facebook can test the feature. Suggested instructions are:
Upload at least 4 screenshots showing the Facebook integration on your site. For example, you might show the "Sign in with Facebook" button, the homepage after the user has signed in, the Facebook screen in Account Settings, and the "Share on Facebook" button on the topic submission screen.
Submit the review.
You should be advised how long the review will take. Once Facebook have approved your review, the additional features will be available on your community.

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